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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

572 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 29

Youth Charged With Wounding

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Fri.—Following the shooting of a member of the Salvation Army, Kathleen Molly Jean Flemming, an 18-year-old…

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Corn Damage Claim Still Unfinished In Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 3

A claim for £5 for damages done to a corn crop at Jackadgery in February last, was continued in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday,…

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Statement To Police Incorrect Says Witness

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—At the Rowles inquest to-day, Sister Paula Wyatt, during cross-examination, admitted that another portion of…

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Murder Charge Against Soldier

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.--"I am innocent of any crime," said Victor Lindsay Dowling (19). soldier, to-day, before the…

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Gaol For Mother: Neglected Children

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wed.—Declaring that she was a disgrace to the community, Mr. Sanderson, S.M., to-day sentenced a 31-year-old…

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Police Court Light List

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 16 June 1944 · page 2

Police Magistrate T. H. Brooke had an exceptionally light list to deal with on the occasion of his monthly visit to Dorrigo oil Wednesday At the…

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Striking C.C.C. Cooks Released From Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 June 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thurs.—In a message to the secretary of the A.W.U., Mr. T. Dougherty, the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Forde,…

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Gaol For Stealing Articles From Mail

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.—Albert William Raymond Wynack, 40, of Burwood, with 23 years' postal service was sentenced in the…

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Court Upholds Appeal By Licensee

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Fri.—Describing the Magistrate's finding as entirely unwarranted, Mr. Justice Studdart, at the Quarter Sessions…

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Criminal Assault On Child

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--A four-year-old girl, Julienne Kearins, was criminally assaulted at her home in Bendick, Murrell, about 17…

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Bogus Doctor Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sun.--The insistence of Royce Lionel Bruce, 55, that he is a medical practitioner, has caused him to spend periods…

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Alleged Gaming House Charge Unfinished In Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 1

Allegations that Tattersall's Recreation Club, in Skinner street, South Grafton, was used as a common gaming house, were made in the…

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Fines In Grafton Court For Breaches More Than A Year Ago

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 4

Two storekeepers, one of Grafton and the other of Maclean, were yesterday fined for breaches of the National Security Act, 1939-1943 National…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1944 · page 4

At Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday last before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., Ferguson Dean was charged with stealing a copper, the property of some…

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Gaol for Sex Crime

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--For having carnally known his 15-year-old sister, Noel Albert Salton (18), of Rhodes, was sentenced by Judge…

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Laneway Murder In Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tues.--A service man has been arrested and charged with the murder of Doris May Roberts (34), whose body…

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Pyjama Girl Murder Trial In Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.--The Crown did not accept Antonio Agostini's statement that his wife had met her death…

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Mass Murder of 7000 Jews by Germans

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.--The mass murder of 7000 Jews by the Germans is alleged in reports reaching London, says the…

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Father For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Wed.—On a charge of having murdered his son Arnold Edgar Fawcett, 51, on June 12. Alfred Fawcett, 81, of…

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N.s.w. Police Chief Cross-examined in Pyjama Girl Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Commissioner Mackay, of the New South Wales Police Department, disclaimed at the Pyjama Girl…

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